Original artwork, not a still
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker warns that living with a public face that differs from the private one wears down self-knowledge. After long enough, the person can no longer tell which face is real, and the pretence stops being a tool and becomes a confusion about identity.
Context reviewed
